On top of that, some of the most well-loved episodes have been ones that don't develop the season arc at all and when your season is only 8 episodes long, there's just not enough room for those episodes.

You’ve mentioned things like shoddy steel, bad welds, and now ‘tofu dregs,’ and it makes me feel like you’ve had a personal run-in with those issues. What projects or products gave you that experience?
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Regarding the poverty: ironically, the World Bank. They put out a detailed, well-researched report in 2022 stating as such: openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...

Regarding medical devices, a report from Deloitte: www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/...

I won't excuse Xinjiang’s late-2022 forced-labor abuses. That being said, China lifted ~800 million out of extreme poverty in four decades. Sure, bargain-basement Temu or Shein goods are low-end—but that doesn’t apply universally. China’s medical-device industry, for example, is world-leading.

I hope you don’t take this as being condescending, because that’s not how I mean it and I think we agree on a lot more than we disagree: I think you need to take a closer look at your beliefs regarding China. I get being anti-authoritarian but some of what you're saying is swerving into Sinophobia.

I’ve looked into it and the US has put up massive regulatory hurdles that make it basically impossible for a consumer to import a BYD car.

US-made cars do the same thing, they just report to your insurance company instead of the government.

Alternatively: American CEOs should get paid less money

Just wait until you see all the cool Chinese EVs from BYD that are $20,000 cheaper while still blowing anything our automakers are doing out of the water. If Chinese automakers were allowed here in the US, Ford, GM, etc. would be cooked.